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LXX2012

Wisdom of Solomon 14:21

And this was an occasion to deceive the world: for men, serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe to stones and stocks the incommunicable name.

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
And this was an occasion to deceive the world: for men, serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe unto stones and stocks the incommunicable name.
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
KJVView canonical →
And this was an occasion to deceive the world: for men, serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe unto stones and stocks the incommunicable name.
King James Version
WEBView canonical →
And this became an ambush, because men, in bondage either to calamity or to tyranny, invested stones and stocks with the Name that shouldn’t be shared.
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
Moreouer, this was not ynough for them that they erred in the knowledge of God: but where as they liued in great warres of ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace.
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha